Mine is on KitKat still……….resisted the change to lollipop as several Forums highlighted problems if you did…especially running a aviation GPS app which is the primary use . Boot up time is considerably slower that it used to be.

Bit academic now as it got dropped and screen now cracked 😳

What to replace it with ?? a 2013 version (still avail new ) or something else ? the nexus 9 I think is too large for flying , maybe the LG Pad

There’s a Nexus 8 imminent I think.

Anything BUT a Nexus device given previous experiences.

Well mine is trundling along fine except… The Micro USB port has started to go a bit baggy so charging can be hit or miss… I’ve ‘adjusted’ it (read poked it around) to tighten it up which has worked so far. When it gets beyond this, I expect I’ll be looking at one of the usb kits on evilBay.

Anyone got a link to the root and trim process? And does it wipe all your data and make all that Google auto sync type stuff impossible?

I refuse to give up on my Nexus!

This is the page I was following to speed up mine

http://www.howtogeek.com/164106/why-is-my-nexus-7-so-slow-8-ways-to-speed-it-up-again/

It included the TRIM process, but I couldn’t get LagFix to work and ForeverGone seems to have forever gone from the marketplace, so I used Trimmer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fifthelement.trimmer&hl=en_GB). They all perfrom the same fstrim command under the covers.

The first page above links to the follwoing process for rooting which is what I followed, prior to TRIMing.

http://www.howtogeek.com/120482/how-to-root-the-nexus-7-galaxy-nexus-or-nexus-s/

The link for the rooting tool kit download on that page is dead, but it can be downloaded from http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/

I’m no expert, this was my first attempt an rooting and I just followed the links and the pop-up help in the tool kit. Good luck and don’t blame me if you brick it.

Yes it does wipe all your data at the unlocking step before rooting as a factory reset is done at this point. The process recommends you to do a back up and the tool kit can do that first. When I logged back in after the reset I deliberately didn’t sign in with my google account to avoid it bring all my apps etc back, wanted to start with a clean slate. It is mostly just used for browsing anyway.